See the cloud they need a salt link to stop Yellowstone from erupting 😂 They trying to use my code against me MOdern warfare 😂

Also quite edited.

No. A fighter jet attempts to hug the ground like a sparrowhawk. Not the other way around. No human will ever fly like this. This bird is flying less than the width of it's body from the ground and obstacles. A jet would have to be 10 feet off the ground to do the same.

The operator?

@@ejohnson3131 the ''Camera man"

The really impressive thing is that they actually filmed this-there is no CGI here.

@@bkjeong4302 yeah....ummm,.okay

@@bkjeong4302 what? there appeared to be a ton of of CGI

@@bkjeong4302 theres a lot of CGI in the slow motion where the leaves react in real time

pretty sure a lot of that was cgi

El Jefe See this article for more info :) TL;DR, its not. It's a trained bird and a camera mounted on a cable. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5vT6mBjZC1y7hFQJyvCRXWq/getting-a-unique-perspective-on-a-sparrowhawk-hunt

Honestly I thought part of that was CGI. Hard to believe camera techniques could pull that off. What a great job!

was just gonna write bet this was taken in one shot :p

did anyone notice that when it went into one side of the gate and then out through the other, that they were different sections of the gate? 😞

I have just seen one in my garden eating something. I was not sure what it was until I searched here and google and definitely a Sparrowhawk. Although this one appeared to have a rodent, as it discarded what looked like fur rather than feathers. Was fortunate enough that it was there for probably 30 minutes, such a beautiful bird. And the local Seagulls didn't want to mess with it haha.

I am here for the same reason. Just watched one from my window capture a sparrow almost faster than the eye could detect! But the birds were all screaming and chirping while it went on.

yeah baiting birds

It's called having a tamed sparrowhawk, like you can go see and interact with in a zoo. There is one person who launches the bird, and another down field who has some meat on a glove. The bird takes it's natural path as if it's hunting.... No rocket science here i'm afraid. That's how they get these shots. Probably 15 minutes work.

Do you think it has something to do with BBC written all over the video.

Believe it or not. Some peoples jobs are their passion. They do it for the recognition.

😂😂😂😂 I agree ...this is good stuff 👌🏾

Yes, I'm here because I just saw our Robin taken whilst trying to make it to the safety of the privet hedge. No chance. Sad but at the same time awesome.

named after tommy cooper?

​@@PeterPete😂👍🤫😉💰

​@@PeterPetethat cooper hawk Is Maverick from top gun in a hawk's body

I strongly suspect this film is of tame, captive bird controlled by the falconers eg Lloyd and Rose Buck. It's all choreographed, filmed, and carefully edited, which is how they get such amazing footage. Otherwise it would be very hit and miss trying to capture this as the camera crew simply wouldn't know where the hawk would fly and when.

سنه الله فى خلقه هذا رزق الصقر

The males are much smaller, take smaller prey.

Must have been a female, a pigeon is too big for a male sparrow hawk

@@amfohr Correct...the female id 40% bigger than the male. Females regularly take on Magpies & crows, yet if a male tried....it would be bye bye for him.

It's all ogre in seconds.

I strongly suspect this film is of tame, captive bird controlled by the falconers eg Lloyd and Rose Buck. It's all choreographed, filmed, and carefully edited, which is how they get such amazing footage. They did a BBC film on Goshawks (plus lots of others) and I suspect it's the case here too.

100% accurate.

Yes it was, I read it somewhere.

What ppl want is excitement ...that it ,, if you can do that , you too wel come .

It would impossible to film a wild Sparrowhawk hunting like this. Captive or not, it's still amazing filming.

Really, ffs 🙄

Maybe a juvenile male?

@@mountainemperorsupreme7766 no females are the larger of the sexes for nearly all raptors. They are dysmorphic.

@@adznz11 I know that. Is there a raptor species in which males are larger ?

@@mountainemperorsupreme7766 To my knowledge, there's a genus of owl which I forgot the name of. It includes the powerful owl (yes, that's actually its name).

Its a juvenile malem

The hawk thanks you for setting the table for him. 😊

mal doran you realise that this is from a TVs show

and then ? cameramens did a great job anyway

mal doran that's what the BBC do best. You won't get a better nature programme than on the BBC.

it is computer graphics. fake, in other words.

wilson youre pretty dumb bobba

There was a right ol' noise in our side hedge, looked out & just coming out of sparrow filled hedge, was a sparrowhawk. Lannded on grass a few metres from me with sparrow in claws. Couldn't believe my eyes in our small back garden!

That was a clever edited repeat effect, I wonder how on earth they made it happen

Yep as much as we see these little song birds as cute, this is nature at it's finest. Hawks have to live too!

247 now 😆

We are in the age of Leftism. There's no place for your reasonable assertions here.

@@fortiond3830 so sad, but SO TRUE

@@quietcorner293 exactly, people only get upset because they're cute what about the evil song birds that eat worms? Who's there for the worms? Do we feel sad when a song Bird eats a worm or spider? They have to live too, we might not like them squishing under our feet biting us when we sleep going inside her ears and making nests but they have to live we have song birds that can take care of them however song birds have their predators as well, AKA cute little hawks. Hawks have their predators as well oh, I see many dead Hawks attacked by and killed by 18 wheelers on the highway. As the hawk swoops in with its eyes focused on its prey in the middle of the median of the highway he darts a cross at unbelievable speed in pursuit of his prey right across the line of traffic in the semi smacks his ass to the ground as feathers fly and then he's dead dead, and then what was once a cute Hawk that was smashed across the front of a semi truck looking like a hood ornament falls off scraped his dead carcass against the highway as as feathers fly then a vulture comes in Scoops up his body or nibbles on it as a little side Buffet. Are we upset now that the vulture is eating what was once a cute Hawk? It's called life cycle.

Loli Hid , this video focuses on the sparrowhawk's flight abilities - and to get such detailed, close-up continuous shots of its flight path, they clearly filmed a tame, trained sparrowhawk bred in captivity for falconry (see the band on its leg) - and got it to fly to this bird feeder multiple times as they filmed it from different angles. So there was no "catching its prey" for them to show. The trained sparrowhawk would have gotten fed small treats each time, but *obviously* they wouldn't have put real live birds as bait for it to hunt there (the footage of blue tits at the feeder was clearly filmed separately and the flying feathers is a dramatisation!) - especially as it had to fly to that feeder multiple times for filming - as that would be not only cruel and unnecessary, but also *ILLEGAL!* [baiting with live wild/captured from the wild birds and/or enabling unnecessarily killing of such wild birds is an *OFFENCE against the law* in the UK!] Here's a BBC article talking about how they planned, storyboarded and and filmed this sequence working with a trained bird, to achieve a detailed, high quality footage that wouldn't have been possible to just film in the wild: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5vT6mBjZC1y7hFQJyvCRXWq/getting-a-unique-perspective-on-a-sparrowhawk-hunt

@@Czadzikable Ahh jesus I'm an idiot, was wondering how the hell they got all them angles.. I forgot birds can be trained lol

@@cappystrano1 fk you

Totally, everything was great but there was no bird to catch...

Second that

dont you just hate when they do that

Nothing to show, the bird probably missed its kill, as they do over 90% of the time.

What more did u need Imbiciles

Well said

Very true. The rare exception amongst British birds

But, how much does it weigh?

Looks.like.a young musket to me

Its a young male they startboff brown

Tramain Bacchus 09h0

Sparrowhawks regularly break the necks of their victims,makes it very fast death,but it takes time to learn so youngsters are often brutal at first.

@@TheRaoulsdaddy Falcons 90% of the time, if what they've caught is still alive will break the neck for which they have a specially designed beak, sparrowhawks on the other hand will eat their prey alive

thats a coconut

Sorry for that.

I used to look after someone's canaries and would take their cages out onto the back patio,with an equal measure of sunlight and shade,on fine,warm days. One such day a neighbouring cat I hadn't seen before came into the garden and jumped the cages,knocking the stand that bore one of them over (the other one was a larger,sturdier affair on wheels). The cage came apart and the canary that was inside it flew into nearby trees. I spent ages trying to coax him back and kept the back door and windows open all night with food out for him,to no avail. I reckoned either the sparrowhawks by daytime or the owls at night probably got him sooner or later. So this is how he could have met his end. :-( At least it would have been quick. I used to let them out to fly free in the living room,with the door and windows shut,while cleaning their cages.